An obituary for a mother in Florida has laid bare a foul feud between her daughters, in which one accuses the other of treating their mother like an ATM and keeping her in a ‘cage’.
Ann Viaros Samios died in Miami aged 96 on April 30 yet her obituary only ran on Sunday after her eldest daughter was accused of being ‘too cheap and lazy’ to write it eight months ago.
Samios’ youngest daughter Patricia Samios Brooks, 55, finally wrote the obituary this week, branding her sister Christine an ‘abusive, hateful daughter’ and declaring that she is ‘spiritually “dead” to us’.
Patricia admitted to DailyMail.com she has been out touch with the family for 20 years and only learned of her mother’s death after doing a Google search of her name on her birthday.
Younger sister: Patricia Samios Brooks, 55, (above) wrote her mom’s obituary slamming her older sister
Eldest sister: Patricia has accused elder sister Christine, (pictured above with her husband 25 years ago), of keeping their mothers’s death a secret and says she learned via Google
Mother: Ann Viaros Samios (above) died in Miami aged 96 on April 30 yet her obituary was only published this week following a feud between her daughters that delayed it for eight months
Samios’ youngest daughter Patricia, 55, claims her unnamed older sister was supposed to write the obit eight months before but was ‘too cheap and lazy’ to do so
‘It was awful finding this out, alone. Had it not been for the cemetery running a COMPLEMENTARY announcement I would still think she is alive!’ she said.
‘I am a little tired of explaining to people outside my inner circle that it wasn’t my fault for posting this obituary eight months after my mother’s death. How could I post what the rest of us weren’t even aware of?’
The paid obituary begins as normal stating that Samios was born on November 4, 1923, in Kythira, Greece before detailing her death of unknown causes.
It begins to take a turn, however, once Patricia starts to list the remaining members of their family and refuses to name her older sister.
‘She is survived by brother Menas Viaros, niece Christine Viaros and 2 children, Patricia Samios, 55, and a much older, abusive, hateful daughter, whose name will not be mentioned and is considered spiritually “dead” to us,’ she writes.
The younger daughter then goes on to make various allegations against her sister, including taking money from their mother and keeping her isolated away from her family.
‘As the older daughter who treated her mother solely as a human ATM, both in life and in death, it was her responsibility to run the obit eight months ago, yet too cheap and lazy to do so,’ she writes.
Patricia Samios Brooks claims her sister used their mom as an ATM in the obituary
It was eight months before an obituary for Ann Samios from Miami appeared
‘On behalf of my uncle, cousin and myself, we celebrate my loving mother’s passing from this earth,’ Patricia continues.
‘We hope she lives in the afterlife with peace of knowing she is free from the nightmare of sharing a “cage” where she was kept completely isolated by a daughter from hell, the last 4 years of her life.’
The obituary, which has since been deleted from the Miami Herald’s database, concludes with Patricia stating that she now hopes to fight against ‘elderly abuse’ after her mother’s experience.
‘As the younger daughter, my greatest wish now is to stimulate a national movement that mandates a purposeful and dedicated war against elderly abuse and neglect as well as estate looting,’ she states.
Patricia has posted on her Facebook page that she wished to expose her sister claiming she was ‘a vindictive, hateful, jealous child’ and accusing her of trying to steal they mother’s estate.
Yet she revealed that she had a restraining order placed against her which she had struggled to have vacated and as a result had not seen her mother in almost two decades.
Patricia also claimed that the siblings had been asked to appear on Dr. Phil 17 years ago but her sister had turned it down.
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